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Jane Adam Pierce
Other Name:
Jane Elizabeth Adam
Gender:
Female
Born:
November 16, 1815
Died:
Unknown
Home Town:
Canaan, CT
Marriage(s):
William G. Pierce (May 1, 1843)
Biographical Notes:
Jane Adam Pierce, born in Canaan, Connecticut to Leonard Adam and Arabella Cook Adam on November 16, 1815, attended the Litchfield Female Academy from 1831 to 1832. Her sister Lucy had attended the Female Academy three years earlier in 1828. After finishing her studies, Jane later married William G. Pierce, also of Canaan, Connecticut, on May 1, 1843..
Education
Years at LFA:
1831-1832
Immediate Family (Why only immediate family?)
- William G. Pierce
Husband - Lucy Adam Joslin
Sister
LFA (1828) - Arabella Cook Adam
Mother - Leonard Adam
Father
The Citation of Attendance provides primary source documentation of the student’s attendance at the Litchfield Female Academy and/or the Litchfield Law School. If a citation is absent, the student is thought to have attended but currently lacks primary source confirmation. Records for the schools were sporadic, especially in the formative years of both institutions. If instructors kept comprehensive records for the Litchfield Female Academy or the Litchfield Law School, they do not survive. Researchers and staff have identified students through letters, diaries, family histories and genealogies, and town histories as well as catalogues of students printed in various years. Art and needlework have provided further identification of Female Academy Students, and Litchfield County Bar records document a number of Law School students. The history of both schools and the identification of the students who attended them owe credit to the early 20th century research and documentation efforts of Emily Noyes Vanderpoel and Samuel Fisher, and the late 20th century research and documentation efforts of Lynne Templeton Brickley and the Litchfield Historical Society staff.
CITATION OF ATTENDANCE:
1831 Litchfield Female Academy Summer Session Catalogue (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).
1832 Litchfield Female Academy Winter Session Catalogue (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).
1832 Litchfield Female Academy Winter Session Catalogue (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).
Secondary Sources:
White, Lorraine Cooke. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records: Canaan, 1739 - 1852, Canterbury, 1703 - 1850. Genealogical Pub. Co., 1996.
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